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(American here.) I don't think I'd support a ban if ByteDance was a European company or Indian or South Korean or Japanese. China is a unique threat given the totalitarian turn the…

>>Fisher became founding Chairman of the University of Cambridge Eugenics Society, whose other founding members included John Maynard Keynes Keynes was the leading economist of the…

2006 was peak "Great Moderation," where there hadn't been any serious financial crises since the 80s. The consensus wisdom was that many of the policies of the 80s & 90s, particula…

Each compiled executable has a one-to-one relation with its source code, which has an author (except for LLM code and/or infinite monkeys). Thus compiled executables are derivative…

Going a step further, weights, i.e. coefficients, aren't produced by a person at all – they're produced by machine algorithms. Because a human did not create the weights, the weigh…

> Its literally manipulation of those who have money to spend them on product they otherwise wouldn't, has absolutely 0 relationship on quality on the product (in extreme cases it …

s/defaults/segfaults/ # stupid autocorrect

I fail to see how this parade of horribles will happen. Under the Chevron regime, any random person could still sue, and provided that the lawsuit survived an initial motion to dis…

Galileo also couldn't explain the lack of an observed parallax effect between opposite seasons given the ideas about optics at the time. When Kepler's model arrived, it was so much…

I find this bizarre as well. The EU Parliament has no initiative, possessing only the power to approve or veto legislation proposed by the Commission. And then when they occasional…

Not to be too pedantic, but ALJs are technically Article I judges (or more precisely judges over Article I tribunals). The Constitution lists two different sources of judicial powe…

I wonder how this AI interprets customers who express anger and frustration through sarcasm

I guess Big Pharma was better at using lobbying dollars than Big Mask.

Interesting. I liked the 1Password 6 UI, was frustrated with 1Password 7 and have been loving 1Password 8 so far. Version 7 seemed really clunky when I needed to do certain workflo…

I tend to be anti-regulation unless the benefits of the regulation can be justified above and beyond laissez-faire , which in practice makes me quite anti-regulatory with some nota…

Neat tool. Would be cool if this CLI could have a flag to read .gitignore and exclude all of the contents automatically. Also it might be cool to have different strategies for dete…

If people were avoiding FOIA by having candid discussions on private servers and deliberately misspelling words all while telling the public a contradictory story, that is strong e…

> Internally they had dissent but dismissed it and went so far as to misspell things so FOIAs would not find things. I hadn't heard this yet. Unbelievable. And yet all of the sites…

When I read the title, my immediate thought was "because 2s complement!" Your explanation is more thorough.

I agree with you. I'd add that this kind of snarky sniping nonsense causes rifts between people who might otherwise agree with one another.

I laughed out loud when I read that. Would expect nothing more from Gizmodo.

EDIT: cite source I have yet to see any evidence of this. To the contrary, we have seen for years that advances in LLMs require orders of magnitude more parameters/power for each g…

I'll be honest, I don't hear a close similarity. If I were to pick a celebrity, I'd say it sounds more like Rashida Jones, though Rashida's voice is slightly higher.

> Rebase workflows are awful and unintuitive. Leave the rebasing to the git wizards who actually know what they're doing, in no circumstances should this be part of your day-to-day…

Negligence is a significantly lower standard than actual malice, and presumably a person who has been defamed would be seeking significant actual damages anyway (the sum of lost wa…